Zoltán Mechlovits (1891 – 25 March 1951 in
Budapest
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) was a male former international
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player from
Hungary
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.
Table tennis career
From 1926 and 1929 he won eleven medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include me ...
. This included six
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have be ...
s; three in the team event, one in the singles and two in the mixed doubles with
Mária Mednyánszky
Mária Mednyánszky (7 April 1901 Budapest – 22 December 1978 also Budapest) was a Hungarian international table tennis star.
Table tennis career
She became the first official women's world champion winning the women's singles event gol ...
.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
*
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
References
External links
* Wiesław Pięta, Aleksandra Pięta
Czech and Polish Table Tennis Players of Jewish Origin in International Competition (1926-1957), PHYSICAL CULTURE AND SPORT. STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Hungarian male table tennis players
1891 births
1951 deaths
Jewish table tennis players
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